Vocabulary
This is a person who rules a country with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal way
What is a dictator?
This man was the leader of Germany during World War II. He started the war by invading Poland. During the war, he also imprisoned and killed millions of Jewish people.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
What is D-Day?
This group of people started to work in factories building airplanes, tanks, and other war supplies because the men were fighting in the war.
Who are women?
During this event, Hitler decided to kill all the Jewish people in Europe.
What is the Holocaust?
This is a type of government in which the government has total control over every aspect of its citizens' lives
What is totalitarianism?
This man was President of the United States during World War II. He was also president during the Great Depression. He had a stroke and died before the end of the war.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The United States used this type of weapon in the final battle against Japan. We attacked the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with this weapon.
What is an atomic bomb?
Who are children?
Many historians believe that this major world event ended when World War II started.
What is the Great Depression?
This is a rule or order made by the President of the United States.
What is an executive order?
This man was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II. He was a dictator who killed millions of people who opposed him.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
What is Berlin?
What is the draft?
These countries fought as the Allied Powers.
What are Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States?
This is the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.
What is genocide?
This man was the fascist leader of Italy during World War II. He took away his citizens' basic rights.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This was the largest battle in Europe.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This world leader killed himself before the end of the war.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This is when someone is treated unfairly or differently, usually because of how they look.
What is discrimination?
This man was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. He used the radio to encourage the citizens of Great Britain to not give up.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This was the deadliest battle in the Pacific?
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
This event caused the United States to enter World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
In 1938, leaders from Great Britain used this strategy to avoid war. They allowed Germany to keep the land they had invaded if they promised not to invade any other countries.
What is appeasement?